Summer is here! This is at least what my “body-clock” is telling me. Growing up in Sweden gives you a very precise sense for when to expect snow, darkness and cold or light evenings, birds chirping and warm winds from the ocean. It is in the way Swedes think and speak and plan the year. “We’ll go…

This week I have been thinking about balance concerning my writing. Slowly I am working out a new schedule for myself: writing during weekdays and blogging during weekends is the goal. Normally I’d be writing when my girls are in school, but I picked (of course) the possibly hardest weeks to try t…

Or Things I learned from an Indonesian tile floor. No need for perfection. No need for sama-sama (the same). No need for matchy-matchy. No need for new and shiny. No need for regularity. Instead: Many different makes a beautiful whole. Function increased; you’re not only walking on the floor, bu…

A couple of weeks ago I posted this picture on twitter with the following caption: “I think I might have found the perfect thinking/writing/doing nothing spot.” Within days it was retweeted 24 times, which was amazing to me, this was after all my very first tweet! And more: I received replies like…